35
And Jonathan sent his brother as leader of the multitude and begged the Nabateans, who were his friends, for permission to store with them the great amount of baggage which they had.
36
But the sons of Jambri from Medeba came out and seized John and all that he had, and departed with it.
37
After these things it was reported to Jonathan and Simon his brother, "The sons of Jambri are celebrating a great wedding, and are conducting the bride, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan, from Nadabath with a large escort."
38
And they remembered the blood of John their brother, and went up and hid under cover of the mountain.
39
They raised their eyes and looked, and saw a tumultuous procession with much baggage; and the bridegroom came out with his friends and his brothers to meet them with tambourines and musicians and many weapons.
40
Then they rushed upon them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain; and they took all their goods.
41
Thus the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge.
42
And when they had fully avenged the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan.
43
When Bacchides heard of this, he came with a large force on the sabbath day to the banks of the Jordan.
44
And Jonathan said to those with him, "Let us rise up now and fight for our lives, for today things are not as they were before.
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For look! the battle is in front of us and behind us; the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that, with marsh and thicket; there is no place to turn.